Maheeda fires back at Charles Novia

Maheeda fires back at Charles Novia
Singer Maheeda has fired back at Nollywood
producer Charles Novia, days after he wrote an
article criticizing her constant show of nudity on
social media. Maheeda's tweet above. See Charles
Novia's article after the cut...
'Maheeda’s maladjustment'. By Charles Novia
In the past few months, some prominent and other
bandwagon bloggers have been inundating the
social media space with inappropriate pictures of a
confused personality called Maheeda.
From scanty information available about the lady,
she used to be a prostitute who got ‘converted’
into Christianity and later released a Gospel album
or some singles. Somehow, she decided to
straddle the pop culture horse and brought out
some nifty singles and videos which found
backwater acceptance on Youtube.
Maheeda is also reported to be married to a white
dude and she is presumed to be presently living in
a European country with the man and her daughter
(or divorced or separated from him as some
reports say) I took little pains to do this
background research on her so as to be well-
informed about the next few points I would make
about her behaviour.
Somehow, Maheeda started posting suggestive
pictures of her body on her instagram page which
caught the interest of Nigerian bloggers. Since
blogging is generally an acceptable form of lazy
journalism and tittle-tattling in Nigeria, Maheeda’s
pictures got the desired attention she wanted.
Either by a covert or overt payment to leading
bloggers to keep her in the news (as it is wont in
Nigerian cyberspace) or a calculated ploy to
garner more hits to their sites, the bloggers went
all the way out with more indulging pictures of the
young lady. And she was ever willing to give more
and cheerfully too with no intention by me to
denigrate her past profession by this phrase.
From suggestive pictures of her near unclad body
parts, the young lady went on a visual spree of
debased pictures of herself and with the lecherous
or amused oogling of social media commentators,
she finally threw whatever was left of her
indiscreet womanhood and posted wanton naked
pictures of herself on instagram. Blogosphere went
crazy in Nigeria with repressed hypocites heaping
accolades or abuses at her or ravished reprobates
asking her to carry on!
Instagram finally had enough a few days ago and
deleted her account for good for crossing
boundaries of (in)decency, perhaps.
It is instructive to psycho-analyse negative
trenders such as Maheeda who have decided to
gain cheap or compulsory notoriety by posting
pictures of their nakedness on social networks.
Granted, there were others before her based in
Nigeria or somewhere in America , some older
Nanny Goats who threw decorum to the wind as
well and posted pictures of drooping breasts and
disgusting backsides in a bid to gain unfathomable
attention. Did Maheeda learn from them? Or did
she decide to improve on their art ( or rather, their
tart!)?.
Whatever the reasons are, we all should be
worried about this growing trend where
shamelessness and wanton exposure of Nigerian
women is fast becoming the order of the day. The
children see all these things and I shudder to think
of what is going to happen in our social space in a
few years. A replication or cloning of millions of
Maheedas and her likes is probably inevitable.
Oh yes, there are some who would react angrily to
the fears I have expressed here and post
comments under ‘Anonymous’ name tags on some
blogs where this article would find amplification
and vilify me and not my points. For such missing
links, you are entitled to your putrid opinions in the
closets of your anonimity where cowards and
bullies find voice.
But the fact remains that you who support and
urge the Maheedas of this clime to carry on with
the de-mystification of all that is dear and
sacrosanctwomanhood, are no better than she is.
You are intertwined in the pugnancy of her putrid
purpose. You both are destroyers of the last
remnants of the African woman’s mystique and
majesty. You support and encourage her to
destroy your children’s moral future. That is just
the plain truth.
I may not know much about psychology or
psychosis but I am willing to bet that Mrs Maheeda
is in the early stages of bi-polarism. It is possible
that she is using the pictures to Jekyll and Hyde
her mental health issues. Mercifully, she lives in a
Western society where it is only a matter of time
where her total sanity would be called to question.
But if Maheeda is not ill, then what is her plan? Is
she possessed by a legion of seventy times seven
demons after her earlier conversion to
Christianity? Or is she just being plain silly? If she
is being silly, then the blogs and websites which
amplified her silly whims have a moral question to
answer.
But Maheeda is not the only by-product of a
jaundiced country. We have her likes in the
National affairs of this country. Only, those types
don’t have to post their pictures for us to see.
They are already naked dancers in the ruinous
chambers of national leadership. They and the
mad ones before them inflicted the pain on the
social fibre of Nigeria which Maheeda was
unfortunate to grow up in. Their naked dances of
greed and corruption turned Maheeda and millions
like her into Prostitutes to eke a daily living.
Maheeda could well be paying back the society
with her nakedness, spoiling the children of the
new Nigeria as a vengeance eats her. She just
might be saying, ‘ as una spoil my life, me sef go
spoil una pikin own’. And stupidly the children of
her vengeful mission oogle and applaud.
It is not also far-fetched too that Maheeda might
be using the naked pictures of herself as a new
form of visual prostitution. Selling her body , now
revamped and refurbished in a new clime, to her
former clients as if to call them out. She might be
saying, ‘You can’t have this now. I have gone to
another level’.
Indeed, she has reached a new level. An all-time
low of self-destruction in a gradual process. But
knowing the society in which I live and where she
comes from, her destruction may be pyrhic: the
sick social society would soon invite her to red
carpet functions and events. Soon, she just might
be signing autographs and strutting societal
streets of false adulation.
Then she would have have the last laugh. Or
perhaps maybe society and fate have one last
wince to elicit from her. Time has a way of telling,
though.